Catalunya has reached a new absolute heat record in May. The 39.5 ºC recorded in Vinebre (Ribera d’Ebre) is the highest temperature ever reached in this month, surpassing the previous record: 38.5 ºC in May 2022 in Castellbisbal and Anglès, and matched on Thursday also in Vinebre.
A federal judge temporarily blocked on Friday President Donald Trump’s initiative to create a $1.776 billion fund to compensate people who claim to have been subject to the “instrumentalization” of the federal government during the Joe Biden administration.
An Extraordinary Plenary Session of the Algete City Council approved yesterday, Thursday, to remove the name of Joan Manuel Serrat from a municipal building, to rename it after a resident, who will be declared Favorite Son of the Town of Algete.
The signing of Anthony Gordon by Barça has been one of the most frantic in recent memory, but this Friday it suffered an unexpected delay in the contract signing. The agreement was closed on Wednesday, he landed in Barcelona on Thursday to undergo the medical examination, and the official announcement of the signing was scheduled for Friday at noon, following the formal signing of the agreement.
The European Commission gave the green light this Friday for Spain to implement a multi-million euro anti-blackout mechanism to strengthen the electricity supply and prevent episodes like the one in April last year, when much of the Iberian Peninsula was left in the dark. The figures are enormous: the system approved under the EU state aid rules will have a cost of 900 million annually, that is, 9 billion for the 10 years it is expected to last.
The Hungarian Prime Minister, Péter Magyar, has achieved his goal in Brussels. The European Commission has announced the release of 16.4 billion euros of European funds blocked by Viktor Orbán’s policies just three weeks after taking office. “It was one of the campaign promises and we have fulfilled it,” celebrated the European popular, very smiling alongside the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. “If every time I come I leave with this amount of money, I will come more often,” he joked.
La Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) claims 109,140.79 euros from Begoña Gómez, wife of the Prime Minister. The University has appeared in the case against Gómez in the Madrid District Court, courtroom number 410, under the direction of Judge Juan Carlos Peinado.
The flood of ongoing legal cases against the political and family environment of Pedro Sánchez – from his wife, Begoña Gómez, and his brother, David Sánchez, to the former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and the last two secretaries of organization of the PSOE, the former minister José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán – keeps all Government action overshadowed and increases political pressure from both the opposition and the partners and allies of the investiture. But the head of the Executive insists on contrasting his management with the political, media, and judicial “noise” in which he is increasingly involved. He already argued last Wednesday from Rome, after meeting with the Pope, that this whole succession of open investigations, in his opinion, “does not at all challenge” the Government’s action in these eight years of mandate, which he also intends to push forward until the legislature is exhausted.
El Govern has expanded this Friday the scope of its loan program for young people aimed at financing the down payment for the purchase of a home. Support to break one of the critical points in access to real estate, which grants financing of up to 50,000 euros without interest, a long grace period, and now extends to new types of property.
On February 11, thousands of teachers took to the streets to protest working conditions in schools. The strike, called by all the educational unions, reached 54% of the entire workforce. The teachers expressed their frustration over the complexity in the classrooms, the system’s demands regarding their responsibilities, and the wage freeze. That was the start of a yellow wave that has continued to be visible. It is now June and the conflict has not been resolved. What has happened since then?